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Literary Criticism Canadian

Gail Scott

Essays on Her Works

edited by Lianne Moyes

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Nov 2002
Category
Canadian, Women Authors, Gay & Lesbian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550711646
    Publish Date
    Nov 2002
    List Price
    $10.00

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Description

This collection of essays examines the varied and influential work of Montreal writer Gail Scott, the feminist and experimental writer who placed Quebec women's writing on the map. Whether working as a bilingual journalist covering political and cultural events in 1970s Quebec, an anglophone writing with the many languages of Montreal in her ears, or a queer writer whose work with "new narrative" links her with writers across the United States, Scott transforms the spaces between communities into spaces of cultural and intellectual possibility. These essays explore her novels, essays, and short stories, which engage a range of issues central to contemporary thought including: the porosity of the subject; the body as sensory interface; history as montage; the novel as multimedia installation; the cosmopolitan center as capitalist and colonialist ruin; and realism as an accumulation of time frames, angles of vision, and events going on simultaneously in different spaces.

About the author

Lianne Moyes is an Associate professor at Université de Montréal. She teaches Twentieth-century Canadian writing; relationships between women writers in Canada and Quebec since 1970; Canadian literary theory and criticism; and French feminist theory.

 

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